A compatibilização entre o comércio internacional e a proteção ao meio ambiente no âmbito da OMC: análise do caso das restrições à importação de pneus recauchutados pelo brasil.

Abstract

The impact of the liberalization of international trade on the environment is currently one of the most sensitive issues in international forum, particularly at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conferences on Trade and Development and Climate Change. If, on the one hand, the advent of the WTO promoted the opening of markets for developing countries and an increase in global competitiveness, in recent years, there has been a process of migration of industries to countries with lower standards of environmental protection, as well as an increase in the international flow of industrial waste, which has been marked as hypotheses of environmental dumping. Recent decisions in the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO have been working on disputes related to environmental measures that affect international trade. The litigation involving the restrictions imposed by the Brazilian government on imports of retreated tires is emblematic in this regard.